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Curtis
After a mind altering encounter at a party, Curtis must face his inner most demons...and his cat...who is trying to kill him. After a mind altering encounter at a party, Curtis must face his inner most demons...and his cat...who is trying to kill him.
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Dawson City: Frozen Time
This meditation on cinema’s past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brought 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The films were seldom, if ever, returned. The now-famous Dawson City Collection was uncovered in 1978 when a bulldozer working its way through a parking lot dug up a horde of film cans. Morrison draws on these permafrost-protected, rare silent films and newsreels, pairing them with archival footage, interviews, historical photographs, and an enigmatic score by Sigur Rós collaborator and composer Alex Somers. Dawson City: Frozen Time depicts the unique history of this Canadian Gold Rush town by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and salvation.
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The Day Before
This is a Colorado mountain comedy thriller about weddings and deer hunting gone terrible wrong.
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The Earth is Not a Spaceship
The Earth is not a spaceship is an experimental film that remixes vintage educational source footage collected by the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. A woman's voice narrates the film, functioning as a mother nature type character. The narration becomes haunting and robotic when coupled with glitchy film footage that has been rerecorded off of various digital screens. The reworking of the footage presents a new interpretation at the intersection of abstraction, the digital sublime, and an inconceivable dystopian existence. Various collisions emerge between the digital and physical world, raising questions about technology's ability to function as a surrogate for experiencing nature and the role that technology plays in our lives.
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Far From The Tree
The story of a strained relationship between a mother and her teenage son as she struggles to come to terms with a past sexual assault and ultimately finds the courage to confront it."
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The Feetles
Get ready for Feetle Mania. The Fabric Four transport you to an era of love and mop hair. Parodying snippets of 3 classic Beatles' songs "I Want To Hold Your Hand," "Can't Buy Me Love," and "She Loves You!" Sock Puppet Parody's short film envelops the 60’s style Ed Sullivan Show from the classic charm of the Beatle’s first appearance all the way down to the wild, screaming fans.
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Five Star
With 41 full-ride Division I scholarship offers, Brandon Jones is one of the most heavily recruited high school football players in the country. But beneath the stats, the college offers, and the very real possibility of achieving his dreams of playing in the NFL, he’s just a kid. And he’s facing the biggest decision of his life.
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FLICKS X CHICKS SHORT BLOCK
A platform for independent female filmmakers, Flicks by Chicks Fest (FxCF) is a competitive, juried film festival sponsored by Women in Film Dallas. The 16th annual FxCF exists to promote, empower, and mentor women in the film industry and the arts as a whole. Tickets available at http://www.wifdallas.org/event-2674018
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Flown
A former astronaut's adjustment to civilian life is upended by the death of a young test pilot.
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A Free Way
Turning the mundane - a trip on a freeway - into the sublime. Courtesy of my iPhone camera, my son Milo, a piece of music I wrote and Premiere to edit with. Milo had the idea to shoot traffic in slow-motion (hand held) with my old iPhone SE. No plugins or digital effects were used in this video - just good old editing and split screens.
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The Gold Line
The sun breaks the horizon and covers the Houston skyline in morning light and long shadows. This is the beginning of the golden hour. Inside his apartment, Steven just woke up and had an epiphany, an idea for a great graffiti mural. After roughly sketching his idea, he leaves his apartment and skateboards toward the Houston skyline. Along the way, he is inspired by the stunning visuals that come with a great sunrise. At the same time, five other young skateboarders are navigating their own individual paths through the urban landscape of downtown Houston. The day, and their lives have just begun. Few will ever be this alive and awake.
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Good Person
Samantha pretends to be tough and street wise but in fact she has never had power over anybody. Without planning to, she terrifies a young undocumented man about her age, and in his eyes she sees and understands fear. After chasing him for a while she might discover a friend.
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